Category: Church Year

LORD of the ages evermore, Each nation’s King, the wide world o’er, O Christ, our only Judge thou art, And Searcher of the mind and heart Though Sin with rebel voice maintain, ‘We will not have this Christ to reign,’ Far other, Lord shall be our cry, Who hail thee

I know that there is great back and forth among those with strong opinions on the matter regarding the proposed Lesser Feasts & Fasts up for debate at General Convention. I had the opportunity to write a guest blog post for the Center for Liturgy & Music at Virginia Theological

I just finished writing a brief history of the Episcopal sanctoral calendar for another blog (I’ll link when it goes up). I’ll be the first to tell you that the evolution of our Calendar has been both crazy and problematic. However, I’ve been seeing recommendations on Facebook and in other

I’m thinking back to yesterday and the conjunction of two different feasts, Corpus Christi and the Feast of the Visitation. It’s worth commenting on why two different sites—like the St. Bede’s Breviary and Daily Prayer—would choose one over the other. How do we think through these decisions theologically and what

As Lent swiftly approaches, here are a few things to remind you about as you consider how to keep a holy Lent… Forward Movement has launched a new faith-in-families resource site called GrowChristians.org. Fr now, it’s conceived as a Lenten trial. If the responses is good, it may well continue

I hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving and a good start to Advent. I’ve got some posts in the works that are proceeding in fits and starts. Barring actual substance, then, here are some manuscript pictures! Advent puts us in mind of the Second Coming and the judgement; suitably, here’s

I love the way the liturgy functions… As many readers know, I’ve got two books in the pipeline right now, one on early medieval monastic Gospel interpretation at the final page proof stage, the other on the spirituality of the prayer book in the editing stage. Both of them deal

Yes, the St. Bede’s Breviary has an abbreviation of the Offices during Triduum. It follows the discussion laid out in this post from 2010. If you prefer a more standard format, I refer you to the Daily Prayer from Forward Movement.

One of the things that I talked about in my dissertation that I’m revisiting as I frame it into a book is the principle of liturgical juxtaposition. That is, one of the ways the liturgy functions is to draw Scripture together—literally placing passages one next to the other—sometimes purposefully, other times

Not being a priest, I have no authority to shape liturgical celebrations at the local level. In a certain sense, this gives me the freedom to play “what if” and think through various scenarios without having to commit to one to embody in the midst of community that has its

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